Book List 2006

Here were my 2006 reads. Favorites are denoted by an asterisk.

Non Fiction:
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls *
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
My Life in France, Julia Child *
A Lotus Grows in the Mud, Goldie Hawn
From Here You Can't See Paris, Michael Sanders
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Bitter Chocolate, Carol Off
The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
State of Denial, Bob Woodward

Fiction:
Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster *
Merde Actually, Stephen Clarke
Prep,Curtis Sittenfeld
Everyman, Philip Roth
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd *
The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy
The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant
Ines of My Soul, Isabel Alende
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl ** BOOK OF THE YEAR!!!
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Victor Lam *

Trash Read
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
Lipstick Jungle, Candace Bushnell - (don't bother)

Despite a marathon of reading while in SBH over the holidays, the stack on my night table is still formidable!

Well, Gayle... We seem to share the same tastes. I loved The Glass Castle, The Secret Life of Bees and although I enjoyed Dogtown, it didn't grip me. Here's what I've read in the past month or so:

Lisey's Story - Stephen King
The Wreckage - Michael Crummey (at least his book didn't reflect his name !)
The Hatbox Letters - Beth Powning
A Good Death - Gil Courtemanche
Mourning Ruby - Helen Dunmore
The Navigator of New York - Wayne Johnston
The Famished Lover - Alan Cumyn
The Lost Garden - Helen Humphreys
Summer of My Amazing Luck - Miriam Toews
A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews
Native Son - Abridged Edition (The original 1940 text) - Richard Wright
The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson
Any and all books written by Jodi Picoult

Currently reading the Poems and Adventures of Winnie The Pooh !!

Deb

nice titles...very good choices...keep the good work up girls......people who read a lot and read good stuff, like the both of you, are our favorite kind of customer

How about last month? no way i can remember all the books of 2006...

Halsey's typhoon...(WW II, S. Pacific) Bob Drury
The places in Between.(crazy scotsman walks across Afghanistan)..Rory Stewart
The Big Oyster....(NYC and Oysters)Mark Kurlansky
The Hudson...Tom Lewis
Down time....(scuba stories) edited by Ed Kittrell

1/2 way thru...

The Looming Tower..( Al Quaeda).Lawrence Wright
the city of falling angels...John Behrendt

Waiting patiently on the nite table...
The man Time Forgot...(founder of time magazine).Isiah Wilner

Along with the usual collection of cheap thrillers...Dave Robicheaux, Spenser, etc etc...

My wife wants me to dive into "the handmaids tale' by Margaret Atwood...but it isn't gonna happen anytime soon...LOL

have you read "No Safe Harbor"?

<<<have you read "No Safe Harbor"?>>>

That's the Wave dancer thing? the divers killed in the hurricane?
no, not yet....

yup....thats the one....good story...the company I worked for put the Dancer people ( Peter Hughs ) in the live aboard dive business ( we are mentioned in the book )..we gave him his first boat ( Sea Dancer) that I delivered to South Caicos from New Orleans...everything the book says about PH and the Dancer company is bang on true....a good book for sure...you will enjoy it

I can't believe there's a separate place for books. I only go to the list of forums and go to the threads on whatever people are talking about but finally scrolled down and ...son of a gun.
Read Gayle's list and was pleased that she gave "Book of the Year" to "Separate Topics in Calamity Physics". What a clever and accomplished novel. It reminded me of Nabokov's "Lolita" and that's high praise. Another one that's good...but I think is too dragged out, is "The Emperor's Children" by Claire Messud. And one I really enjoyed is "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon who wrote "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time"...or something like that a few years ago. And I just finished "After This" by Alice McDermott which is excellent...though it might help to have been brought up Catholic to appreciate all of the book. But that woman is a very talented writer.

Keep reading!

jim

The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night is a wonderful book. A friend of mine is the mother of an autistic young adult man and he could relate to the book and was recommending it to everyone.

DebTor

The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night is a wonderful book. A friend of mine is the mother of an autistic young adult man and he could relate to the book and was recommending it to everyone.



DebTor

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an incredibly inspirational read...and still a good seller